Digital transformation revolves around our ability to modernize our data center because that is where our data resides. The data center is no longer a physical location. It extends beyond the walls of the enterprise, to the cloud, and to the edge where new data is being generated and analyzed. Data holds the key to our success in this new digital era.

The key requirements for Data Center Modernization are an agile data infrastructure that is cloud aware and container integrated, data governance which ensures that data is continuously available and adheres to compliance objectives, operation intelligence to provide deeper insights, and automation to optimize and accelerate innovation.

Many of our customers are well on their way to modernizing their data center. An example is Rabobank, a banking and financial services company that serves 10 million customers in 47 countries. Like all financial institutions, Rabobank is subject to a wide range of strict government regulations in each of the countries in which it operates. Previously, IT gathered communication data from multiple sources in each country, which might include email, recorded voice calls, instant messages, and chat applications. Just gathering the data was time-consuming, resource intensive, and error-prone. Analyzing the data for compliance was even more time consuming since IT would have to mine multiple data sources spread across many disparate silos; some from third party vendors, and some held on backup tapes. There was no way to associate one communication type with another and if the enquiry changed they would have to search the same systems over again. The compliance division had to wait for IT to service each request for data before they could begin their work.

Rabobank needed to modernize their data center by creating a solution that would collect every piece of relevant data into a central, comprehensive data set where the data could be correctly managed and governed with compliant access control, audit trails, and automated policy-driven deletion. Rabobank engaged Hitachi Vantara to build this centralized data platform on Hitachi Content Portfolio (HCP). With HCP, Rabobank has simplified access to the data that they need for compliance investigations. They have significantly improved the efficiency and flexibility of their investigations and cut the discovery time from weeks to hours. Investigators get access to the data they need from their desk without having to ask for help from IT. As a result, the IT team was released from administrative data search and retrieval tasks to focus on more proactive tasks.

Hitachi Content Portfolio (HCP) is an object storage solution that enables IT organizations and cloud service providers to store, share, sync, protect, preserve, analyze and retrieve file data from a single system. HCP automates day-to-day IT operations like data protection and readily evolves to changes in scale, scope, applications, storage, server and cloud technologies over the life of data. Tightly integrated with HCP, Hitachi Content Intelligence addresses the challenges of exploring and discovering relevant, valuable and factual information across the growing number of data producers and siloed repositories that plague organizations today. By aggregating multi-structured data, Content Intelligence enables insights to be surfaced faster, data management and governance to be more complete, and to understand the distribution of organizational data based on its value to the business.

The Hitachi Content Portfolio was recently recognized by the Business Intelligence Group with the 2018 Fortress Cyber Security Award for Regulatory Compliance. The differentiation in the nomination was the addition of Hitachi Content Intelligence to the Hitachi Content Portfolio, making it the industry’s only integrated object storage portfolio offering sophisticated search and analytics capabilities. The new intelligence solution rounds out the HCP portfolio, which already offers a seamlessly integrated cloud-file gateway and enterprise file sync and sharing and continues to improve an organizations’ ability to strategically manage data. More than 2,000 customers have already adopted HCP as a key component in their digital transformation journey. With Hitachi Content Intelligence, these customers can transform data into relevant business information and deliver it to the right people, when it matters most.